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lowrezbonuslevel · 1 month

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🪄 and 🌙 for Tillda please!

Sure thing!

Q: "🪄 (Magic Wand) - Are they capable of wielding magic? Is it a learned skill, or is it innate? What sorts of spells can they cast? Do they possess any magical items or artifacts? [e.g. the Dimensional Mantle]"

A: I headcanon that Taranza's species as a whole (including Tillda) have innate abilities in both plant and web magic (and probably crystal magic too). But that doesn't mean all of them practice or use that magic on a regular basis—Tillda, for example, rarely has a major reason to make webs aside from doing her hair, and she almost never uses her plant magic. So, she's not exactly battle-tested, but she wouldn't hesitate to sling a spell or two in self-defense.

PS: If Taranza's is pink and Sectonia's is golden, I think Tillda's magic aura ought to be purple!

(continued answers + sketches under the cut!)

PPS: It was mostly Tillda that supported Taranza's study of puppeteering magic (which is NOT one of their species' innate abilities). She didn't understand the first thing about it herself, but it was one of the few things that continued to make her little brother genuinely cheerful in the wake of their parents' sudden absence, so… escorting him to puppetry classes and sorcerers' seminars was soon just part of life.

Q: "🌙 (Moon) - Is your OC a particularly light or heavy sleeper? Somewhere in-between? Do they take naps?"

A: I would have to think Tillda is a heavy sleeper. Her job is pretty stressful and she always comes home tired. And she does take naps, but never intentionally…

(To be honest, she probably has chronic fatigue.)

#kirby #kirby oc #lrbbox #lrblev art #sketch #taranza #original character by: lowrezbonuslevel #tarantillda #tillda WAKE UUUUUP! they're BEATING HIS ASS IN THE QRTS!!!#hehehe. i love drawing tinyranza #maybe a weird headcanon/theory about the puppetry thing but imo? taranzas title of “master of puppetry”...#is way more badass if its something that ISNT just like. a random-ass overpowered ability that every spider floralian can perform #perhaps puppeteering was invented by a floralian. but it is not something that floralians are born knowing how to do. in my humble hc #tillda was happy for her brother but she was NOT interested in becoming a master magician herself. lol #poor lady just wants a good nights sleep. which is an even harder challenge than Soul Melter EX!!!#edit: realized i forgot to address this part of the question directly but...#tillda does not own any particular magic artifacts or weapons

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fiovske · 6 months

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the thing abt mizu is that she is extremely non-binary in such a genderqueer way that she has homoerotic energy w men and extremely sapphic energy w women.

#i know this is gross simplification bc mizu's relationship to womanhood is quite a few layers of complicated #bc she has never been allowed to be human let alone woman in a society where mixed race is seen as a greater condemnation than womanhood #and a lot of her dressing up as a man is to save herself from the reach of said misogyny which wont let her be addressed as a woman #but sure be dehumanized as one.#but it is funny to think of how homoerotically charged her interactions w taigen are. as opposed to her interactions w women. w akemi.#i have not finished the show yet i've still quite a few eps to go. but god her being mixed race has been so incredibly isolating.#she struggles w intimacy she feels like she has to do everything alone bc who in the world wouldnt hate her? would not turn her in for coin #her easily clockable ethnicity has challenged both her ability to live w womanhood #and be a part of womanhood in a society where women are treated so poorly.#anyway this is a joke post simply to comment on how mizu's chemistry w taigen is as opposed to mizu's chemistry w akemi #i'd beseech you to not take it seriously. like i said. its a gross simplification. and this is a joke post.#im watching blue eye samurai and the art style is pretty cool

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herebutnothere · 20 days

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SPOLIERRRR

My issue with the Atlanta timeline is that it was 8 years ago and there no mention of Lily age. Also, based on the actor that plays Lily I think think it was suppose to look like tashi regardless of the father. So without the age and timeline only thing she mention was “our daughter” and it was vague….

second… them having no mention of Lily doing tennis was also odd and probably intentional… which I don’t understand. If she loved tennis so much she would do anything to live it vicariously through people around her like art and her daughter… I doubt tashi is one of those parent that like I won’t pressure my daughter to do that but literally manipulated art and even cheated just for tennis… there is no way she solved that aspect of projection and trauma when it comes to Lily… she really didn’t have to go through all those emotions when art said he wanted to quit when her daughter existed.

Yeah, it was definitely a choice to make her favor Tashi the most, but even without specifics in age, Lily is absolutely around 7 or 8 given her mannerisms, the little conversations we did hear, babysitter, etc... I'll file this under "intentional omissions that add to the drama of it all," especially given how precise everything else is.

And speaking of omissions and precision, regarding no mentions of Lily playing tennis: I'm glad it wasn't just me who noticed it. Because I completely agree—it was too far ingrained in Tashi's DNA to not have some element of it come up as another chance at success via her kid. Or maybe that's the point, that she was able to "sacrifice" that potential for her daughter's benefit and to spare her all that it costs? Either way, interesting all around.

#challengers spoilers #challengers movie #I don't need a sequel but if one had to be made it needs to address Tashi as a parent and her own childhood too #tashi duncan

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unusualshrimp · 1 month

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i love it when it's election season and suddenly every party has something to say about gay people

#''TMC is committed to addressing the challenges faced by the lgbtq community''#girl please focus on addressing the giant potholes. in the roads.

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rainymoodlet · 1 year

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Kiss Me in Komorebi 🌹 pre-show

Exclusive Interview with the Bachelor! (part three)

ft. the 15 OC Questions tag (thank you to all who tagged me to do this! i thought it would be the perfect base for an interview!)

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#ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 screenshots #ts4 bachelor challenge #sim: daniel #;kmik #tw blood //#tw bruises //#tw abuse //#so the editing on this is not the cinematic reveal i’d imagined BUT #it serves its purpose #that is Military Brat Daniel at age 16 #after getting between Sgt Daniel Joseph Taylor II(‘s fists) and his youngest brother(‘s face)#note how he instantly deflects by saying thats all there is to say (there’s not)#djdjjfd anyway i’m obviously obsessed w my own sim cough #thank you to all who tagged me!!#(his past lingers rly close to the surface :(( mans hasn’t addressed shitttt he just went into Protect Family mode and hasn’t #broken out of it since)#his dad is the First but honestly its a typo dhdhd

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thefirstknife · 1 year

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can we please. go one (1) week without the PVP obsessed people going off about how PVP is the only thing that matters in the game. im so very tired. "PVE people are probably about to find out that PVE can't carry the game because PVP is ruined and we're all gonna quit and play better games" please just can they shut up and go already instead of threatening us with a good time they never follow through on??

I saw that stuff as well, I know exactly what you're talking about. It's incredibly disingenuous and deliberately incendiary to cause more people to bitch about the game being doomed or whatever.

They are constantly using "steam numbers" to show that this is the lowest population count that Destiny 2 ever had and how that's proof that the game is being ruined and dying, that pvp bros and content creators are more important than we think they are, that Bungie needs to make Destiny 3 (yes, that is unironically stuff that people are saying) and other really incredibly tiring things.

Not to mention the vitriol towards the devs. Every time they bitch, more and more people show up in the comments saying awful shit about devs and how they are lazy, they don't work, they don't care, they are bad at development and so on. This is what eventually fuels harassment.

These "steam numbers" are disingenuous because they are taken out of context and they strip all other external reasons from the "low player count."

Is there a low player count? Yes! That is correct. Even when we account for console players, it's still low.

This is nothing new. This is a constant trend. Last month of the season ALWAYS has low numbers. People finished their story and their pinnacle grind and their seals and are doing other things.

More under for length:

Is this the lowest it's been so far? It seems to be, though the final month on steam charts isn't over so we can't fully tell yet, but it seems to be one of the lowest. However, there's been similar numbers before during seasonal end. It's quite literally nothing new. We go through this every season, except this season it's slightly lower than usual.

Why is that? Well, the chart Aztecross put to prove there's not many people playing happened on a Monday before the final Tuesday reset of the final week of the season. Yeah bro, very few people have things left to do in the season. They're not bothering. Unlike you, other people have other hobbies and games to play. I haven't played in days, I only got on on Saturday to finish my King's Fall seal and that took 10 minutes. This is what I mean by "disingenuous." It's a cheap bait tactic. Find the lowest number and ship it for cheap outrage engagement.

Others are constantly also posting the cummulative steam chart for every month of Destiny since the game came to steam and they're pointing out that we have lowest numbers now. Which is, again, posted for cheap outrage. They look at the number and see it's low and their conclusion is "game is dying." They don't care about the trend (every season end is "dying"), they don't care about external reasons (other game releases), they don't care about overall how some seasons are just weaker and have less interest (not the first time), they don't care about anything.

They just want people to be mad enough to harass the devs. Because like, what do they think is going to happen when they spend 2 months blogging to hundreds of thousands of people about the game being ruined by evil devs who don't do their job? When they constantly talk about how everything in the game is bad, pvp is bad, pve is boring and easy, story is bad, seasons are bad, events made for fun are bad, small community event is bad. What's going to happen is thousands of people are going to harass the devs. That's what going to happen.

I took the "steam numbers" chart that people are throwing around and I went into it in-depth to explain what the numbers mean and add context to them. You can see it here. It's a big image but you can zoom in and explore. It makes more sense when you see it separated by seasons; you can CLEARLY see the main trend of "low population at season end."

Another thing to consider with these numbers is the scheduling pattern. Shadowkeep released in October, Beyond Light released in November after a delay. October-November are usually months with a lot of other game releases and holidays. In 2019 and 2020, Bungie had an expansion themselves to cover that time. In 2021, there was no expansion in Oct-Nov; and that was the last time the game had the lowest population record ever. WHAT A SURPRISE. In this period, if Destiny doesn't have an expansion, people move on to play other games!!!! WOW! We have the technology to decipher the low numbers!

It's important to also note that back in 2021, that was the first time a game was delayed properly and significantly, so the year was without an expansion and there was a lull in Oct-Nov period. However, at that time, it was the first time this schedule happened and people generally didn't know how will it go. We were also kept in the dark about the seasonal story end (the infamous When Is Exorcism incident) so people had to keep coming back. Now, we're in the same situation; no new expansion in Oct-Nov, seasonal lull, nothing is happening. However, now, we know how this goes. People know how this schedule works AND we're not dealing with an extended season. We know when this season ends and there's nothing to wait for. People are more comfortable taking a break. So there's less people in Oct-Nov 2022 than there were in the previous lowest point, Oct-Nov 2021. It's almost as if there are reasons for this that go beyond "game is obviously dying."

These people also seem to be incapable of understanding that some players just... stop playing. For no specific reason. The game isn't dying, some people just lose interest. Content creators are especially guilty of this, because THEY can't stop playing, because they tied their income to a single live service game. To them, quitting the game is losing a job. Curious, maybe that influences their views about the game and about burnout and taking breaks and the quality of the content?

They simultaneously want Bungie to drop FOMO and reduce burnout, but they ALSO want for there to never be "content droughts." Which one is it? Because these two things cannot both be gone. If you want less FOMO and less burnout, then there will be less content. If you want more content, then you have to get on that burnout grindset.

It's the end of the god damn season. Yeah, nothing is happening. Yeah, fewer people are playing. Players finished their grind in the Destiny mines and are doing other things before the new season drops. Stop catastrophising it for cheap outrage bait. You not being able to take a break and having to keep making new content even when the season is ending and there no new content is your problem. Not Bungie's, not the other players'.

Bungie is not going to force their devs to crunch 80 hours per week so you can have brand new content every Tuesday that no regular player can catch up with. As it currently is, I want MORE downtime. I want seasons to be 4 months and to have less time and more downtime to catch up with stuff. Imagine the outrage though. Genuinely, society if these people would actually deliver on their promise and leave. Someone else will take your place, bro.

Also, as a final note before a dissertation in the tags: these pvp mains are weak. They whine about only having 2 new maps in 2 years. Gambit got -2 new maps. Like, literally we had 6 maps and now we have 4. LMAO. Crucible has a total of 24 maps and 8+ modes, constant updates, Iron Banner rework, multiple Trials reworks, incoming competitive rework, Crucible labs, three different sets of armour, prestige weapon loot, three different seals, entire twabs dedicated just to it. And they whine about not enough attention for the Crucible?

It's getting more attention than any other core playlist. Their problem is that they're not the ones being catered to. An update doesn't count if it doesn't satisfy mister Crucible Main #37. Fuck everyone else I guess! They are the most entitled selfish childish little pricks I've ever seen. They do not deserve Bungie talking the players at all.

#destiny 2 #community #bungie #long post #ask #genuinely though. for the love of god. every 3 months the same horror #just take a break. I am begging #are there issues with the game? absolutely. this season had a lot of them especially with all the weird stuff with challenges and quests #quests that are too grindy and make no sense and requirements that go through the roof #and some content creators eventually ended up mocking players for wanting it changed. because they have infinite time to play and we dont #there are issues. always. i can write a post three times as long detailing stuff i would love to see addressed #but instead we have to explain the concept of other games existing to destiny youtubers #i would love to be able to get some good conversation going with bungie but alas #we're talking about a monday before the final week of the season having less people playing #no fucking shit. nobody is playing on the final monday at 11 am? wow. how peculiar /s #most are done and those that aren't done are waiting for the final week having double rep in all playlists #also like. i said in the image i posted but. do they think bungie doesn't know this? lmao. trust me their marketing department knows #the execs know about how many people are playing. you're not the first one to notice #i'm so tired of this being the topic instead of actual real issues that we can work on solving with meaningful feedback

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thefloatingstone · 1 year

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Seriously tho what a fucking stupid mindset.

"We must prevent children from experiencing difficulty through fictional work!"

WHAT A GREAT IDEA THAT IS, SUSAN.

And how exactly do you expect this child once they grow up to handle difficult and complex situations involving experiences, ESPECIALLY with other human beings with different perspectives and experiences, when you have literally prevented them their whole lives from even being AWARE that life and people are a lot more complicated and messy and sometimes bad things happen to good people and sometimes bad people pretend to be good and sometimes good people can do bad things????

HOW DO YOU THINK THESE ADULTS WILL RESPOND TO ENCOUNTERING COMPLEX ISSUES???? WHEN THEY HAVE LIVED THEIR WHOLE LIVES KNOWING ONLY COMPLACENCY AND NOTHING EVER CHALLENGING THEM??? WHEN THEY HAVE 0 EMOTIONAL TRAINING BUT NOW HAVE THE POWER TO ACTUALLY AFFECT THESE THINGS?????

HOW DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO GO, SUSAN?????

#Maybe when you're calling for practices employed by nazis log off the internet and take a REAL long look in the mirror #Maybe decide to NOT emotionally and mentally stunt your child #Maybe give children more credit #Maybe go to a therapist to address your own trauma #Maybe you should have read more challenging books growing up and you wouldn't be this much of a book burner #Calling for the exact same practices thought to be 'morally good' and 'for the health and safety of children'#as every single hate group to have ever existed #Maybe challenge yourself more #Maybe analyse yourself more #Maybe stop and think

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ms-all-sunday · 18 days

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i think theres this struggle when describing characters like nami and zoro and sanji that "kind" isn't the most articulate descriptor. the three of them are fundamentally kind yes, but they aren't actually kind people. (like on a day-to-day) they're kind people when you get to the core of them but it requires getting to the core you know? they're caring, i think that's a better description. caring/passionate/etc.

i was thinking about WCI and how it describes sanji as kind and that i think would be fine if it was taken in a vacuum but WCI can't even portray fawning over an abuser right and fundamentally doesn't admit sanjis obvious weakness for fawning. (its like it wants to protray fawning but cant have sanji have a weakness so even when he essentially fawns and its obviously a problem he actually hated them the entire time) it's not even that sanji is the perfect abuse victim in the traditional sense, because then that person would fawn over their abusers but sanji "doesn't" at least in the canon of WCI itself. i think it would make much more sense if WCI actually was a narrative about him fawning over his abuser (it would make the "kind" comment make sense. because it would be identifying the age old truth. sanji is a pushover who has no boundaries)

but the narrative doesn't make sense and fundamentally eats its own tail because it cant decide whether sanji is someone who fawns over their abuser with no boundaries or is willing to set boundaries but is manipulated into an arrangement. it cant decide whether sanji is "kind to a fault" or "a stubborn hardass"

#meta #whole cake island #not ONCE in wci does sanji actually have a flaw #the only time he does anything close to having a flaw is when he challenges luffy but even then thats not a flaw #not within the narrative at least #well okay the narrative treats it like its a flaw only in the sense hes pushing his friends away for a justified reason and then stops but #it doesnt work because there was no grand narrative about sanji fawning in the first place #hell the reason he just doesnt tell them to fuck off makes no sense #modposts #to be clear he does fawn and i think thats the intention but the narrative doesnt address shit #and im trying to meet the narrative on its own terms

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